Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-11-03
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

--Mecosta young people have organized
dramatic club.
Bunker Hill has debating society 10
while away the winter hours.
Clarence Elliott. Of Napoleon, this
season raised 1000 bushels Of onions.
A Chautauqua reading circle has been
formed by the Stanton school teachers.
There is now q strong odor of gas ut
the Jackson well, which is down 1900 feet.
The lumber showers at Muskegon work
for so cents an hour. On the Saginaw
River they get 60 cents.
Maple Rapids is wrestling with tho
question whether night watchman would
be profitable investment
Thieves entered the barn of Seth Vro-
man, in Brady township, Kalamazoo Coun-
ty, and stole sixty pounds of peppermint
oil.
Squirrels and other small game are ie-
ported more plentiful in Southern Michi-
: gan this fall than at any previous time in
many years.
As train was entering East Saginaw,
/ recently, E. G. Preston, of Detroit, vas
found dead in his dead. Tn, cause was
heart disease.
! The recent failure Of the Merchants
and Miners Bank at Iron Mountain has
created a demand for a sound bank on the
= Menominee range.
WIN. Spicer, convicted at the Kaa-
| q I. has
4 been sentenced to the Detroit House OF
; Correction for nine months.
: The theatorium at the Soldiers Home
u is being fitted up with the necessary stage
settings and furniture, and amateur enter
4 tainments will soon be on the programme.
y Hon. VIM. T. Jones, Mecosta County's
r representative in the State Legislature, has
RAPIDS lower depot, and is converting 1t
," into a large wood working institution.
Almost the entire peppermint product
of the world comes from three counties In
to Michigan and one in New York. About
le 5000 pounds have been raised this year,
a which shows falling off Of 5000 pounds
is from the yield of last year.
We BY the for 'eiture of land grant In
D. Northern Michigan to the Marquette,
IN Houphton and Ontonagon Railroad Com
Id pany, nearly 100000 acres of land have
been opened to settlement, and the tract
~ will soon be entirely occupied by home
m steaders.
in John McNaughton, the Big Rapids
n. lumberman SO terribly mangled by log
q ping road accident few weeks since-be-
~ ~ | ing dragged over the ties Dy the engine-is
90 recovering. He is still at his camp 10"
w miles from Big Rapids, the danger OF NOV.
lat ing him being too great
' t.n An able bodied fish, OF rather eel
80 story is told by +. A. Pomrog, OF Jones
vile. He says the eels get into the tur
he bine wheel at his mill in such great mum
or bers that they clog it up so that 1t stops
lis He repeatedly took two bushels OF frag
lu, ments of cells from the wheel, and hnali.
eai decided TO inclose it with wire netting.
ing Mary Harvey, 10 years old, was one OF
"a party of scholars that marched from the Con
OF vent of the Most Holy Trinity to the churci
~ ~ of that name, in Detroit, recently. In
er. procession had hardly got from the shado'
ky of the convent when man dasneo aroun'
lily the corner, and, seizing Mary, started dow
ng- the street with her. She screamed, and he
to fellow students added their cries to hers
w. T. Ockford rushed to her assistance
The two men fought for the child. OcH
ford finally obtained possession OF MAR
oro who was badly frightened Her neck WI
~ bruised where the would-be abductor ha
90, choked her. The man was Richard Ha
vev. her father. Three years ago Mary
the mother died, and, at the request OF
evo- father, she was adopted bya man name
33 McGraw. The father wanted to get u
'ars, Girl back, but McGraw refused to give q
ne mn. The little one is unable to leave
- ..,,s bed. and serious results are feared,
yeen Probably the most interesting OIL
sur valuable curiority in the firemen's museu
nae at No. 2 engine house, at Jackson, Is
- a one brought in a day or two ago by
his farmer whose name the men did not leal
vears IL has been found to be South Americ
'th- black vulture, though the farmer thous
He IL n black eagle. He said he saw 1t ~
ge OF nino about his farm few days ago,
chased IL lntO u DTubu phiet "ASAo - =
! last tured it. The bird is about the size
split hen turkey, ana its main ooio, -
and blue back, though many OF the lar
es of feathers and plumes are brilliantly color
Der OF making the bird very handsome o
Ior The head is small and nearly bald
was was the beak is about three inches long, stro
of and little hooked. About the cente
doc. the upper portion of the beak is a q
mus paratively large hole, cut by nature, ne
nense rectangular in form. The bird meas'
ldous Ave feet from tip to tip of its WINGS wi
i'm. r, loroa and strong in compariso
hat in arc 70. aho,r;rr ,bo, a ia capable of
Ian OF i's DouS' consider
weight in its talons. The firemen
been looking up ornitholo9y, and arc
item." isfied that the bird is fine specime
,anuts the South American black vulture. ]
O,000 think that the bird is an escaped attraS
dozen 20 .o,,a c;rcua museum.
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